Lab News

Sharon Thompson-Schill has been elected a Fellow of the Society of Experimental Psychologists, the oldest and most prestigious honorary society in Psychology, and one that elects only a handful of Fellows each year. Congratulations Sharon!

Sharon Thompson-Schill is this year’s recipient of Psychonomic Society Mid-Career Award. The Psychonomic Society Mid-Career Award is given for exceptional contributions to the field of experimental and cognitive psychology and related areas by an individual who is currently in the middle of their career. Congratulations Sharon!

Kathryn Graves has been awarded a Dean’s Emerging Scholars Fellowship. This award is offered to select incoming doctoral students each year to promote diversity, inclusion, and excellence within the Yale Graduate School of Arts and Sciences.

Sharon Thompson-Schill has been selected for the Provost’s Award for Distinguished Ph.D. Teaching and Mentoring. This award is granted to a faculty member whose teaching is intellectually demanding, who inspires excellence in research, and who demonstrates a strong and consistent commitment to graduate student mentorship. Congratulations, Sharon!

Ivy Tse was awarded the The Millstein Family Undergraduate Research Grant, which will support her project, “Facial Perception and Social Value Learning.” Congratulations Ivy!

Mira Bajaj was awarded the Velay Fellowship, a fellowship aiming to support female undergraduates conducting research in science/engineering fields, for Summer 2017. She will develop a project to test human learners’ abilities to learn abstract regularities from simple visual sequences, and ask when and how they can use such knowledge in acquiring new categories. Congratulations Mira!

Sharon Thompson-Schill has been selected as this year’s recipient of the Trustees’ Council of Penn Women Award for Advising. Congratulations Sharon!

Sharon Thompson-Schill is featured in an article in the Penn Arts and Sciences Magazine, entitled: “Thinking About Thinking: Sharon Thompson-Schill’s Brain Work on the Working Brain.” The article can be read in fullhere, starting on page 16.

Research by Sharon Thompson-Schill, Michael Ramscar and Lila Chrysikou is discussed in a recent Scientific American article entitled“The Advantages of Being Helpless.”The publication detailing this work can be foundhere.

Arber Tasimi, an undergraduate in the Thompson-Schill lab, has been named Dean’s Scholar by the School of Arts and Sciences. As a Dean’s Scholar, Arber will receive $250 and will attend the Levin Family Dean’s Forum, which honors a select group of outstanding undergraduate and graduate students for their academic performance and intellectual promise.

A Case for the Distractable Toddler: Sharon Thompson-Schill featured in Wray Herbert’sWe’re Only Human.

Nina Hsu was awarded an NRSA Graduate Fellowship from the NIA. Congratulations!

A recent study by Dave Kraemer, Lauren Rosenberg and Sharon Thompson-Schill is featured on Penn’s SAS Frontiers website. Read the write-up, which discusses the neural correlates of visual and verbal cognitive styles,here.

David Nguyen, an undergraduate in the Thompson-Schill lab, has been selected as a recipient of the John P. Sabini award. The Psychology Department gives this award to graduating seniors with an impressive undergraduate record and an interest in social psychology (specifically emotion, social motives, moral action and/or character). Student winners are selected on the basis of their written thesis, poster presentation, and oral presentation to the department.

Broca’s area: It’s a dessert topping! No it’s a floor wax! No it’s a cognitive control mechanism! Sharon Thompson-Schill featured in Broca’s area discussion onTalking Brains.

A study by Rob Goldberg and Sharon Thompson-Schill is discussed in a recent post on Wray Herbert’s We’re Only Human. Read the posthere.

Ranjani Prabhakaran was awarded an NRSA Graduate Fellowship from NIMH.

Dr. Sharon Thompson-Schill is a winner of the 2004 WiSC mentorship award:The WICS Mentorship Awards are designed to encourage established scientists, both male and female, to develop the research and publication skills of female graduate and undergraduate students in cognitive science. Up to three awards will be made each year to scientists who have demonstrated sustained, effective mentorship of female students and who have also served as a research advisor or supervisor to one or more female students during the academic year immediately preceding the nomination.